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2009.12.09
I should have done this a long time ago. I moved the permitcalculator to it's own domain. The php servers at freeshell.org have been out of commission and regardless of the name, freeshell has not been free for me I am a meta arpa member which means I pay yearly. I always thought it was a good deal but lately the reliability has ben shakey to say the least. This site is hosted on NearlyFreeSpeech. A great service me thinks.
2009.05.10
Got the news that the State is raising the permit levy, imagine that. Pay attention to which permit calculator you use until July 1, 2009.
2006.10.02
Well it has come up on a year since I bought the permitcalculator.com domain name and the hit numbers don't justify the hosting cost. What i did was transfer the domain to Domainmonger and redirected to freeshell using ZoneEdit. Total cost, $17.00 per year vs $90.00. That's why you're here!
2006.01.10
Where have I been? In the dumps for some reason. The Holidays, then the dentist, but now I'm back at it. All the pages have been converted to PHP to make things easier as time goes by. I've also been working on Chesapeake's page.
2005.12.19
The Virginia Beach page is complete! With the help of anyone who uses it we'll be able to fix the inevitable bugs.
2005.12.14
The biggest part of the Electrical Permit calculators on the Virginia Beach page are done. What took the longest was the fact that javascript is loosely typed and one of the variables in the main function wanted to turn into a string at the last minute. Problem solved by forcing it into a calculation so it remained a number!
2005.12.07
The Virginia Beach consolidated building permit calculator went live today. Next up is the Electrical Permit calculator which will include coding I've not done so far.
2005.12.06
Just spent a ton of time writing a combined residential building permit calculator . Checkboxes and other new stuff. When I originally wrote the separate ones, I didn't stop to think how folks would go about figuring a new house. Of course there would be both heated and unheated spaces as well as they might also want a C.O. and to do right of way work. What sense would a calculator be if you had to total several different results?
2005.29.21
Just uploaded the Virginia Beach page after several hours of getting it to validate to HTML 4.01 transitional. Whew! I may settle on that standard for backward compatibility.
2005.28.21
Back from the adventure in Georgia and now that I have resurrected the main computer, I guess it's back to work. That is, after a bit of Christmas shopping tomorrow!
2005.11.21
Nothing much going on here at the calculator pages due to the fact my main computer had a hard disk failure. Maxtor, one year out of warranty. Probably nothing lost but time as I have a script which ran nightly and backed up the working folders to a set of mirrored data disks. The system drive crashed so my work should be fine. A new Seagate is on the way from Newegg.
I'll be out of town 'till next Tuesday so don't look for much.
2005.11.12
Last night I tried to use the prototype calculator from both my Macintosh machines and it didn't work on either of them Safri or Firefox. It's of to the W3C to find ou where the trouble may lie. If you have any ideas hoe 'bout an email?
Later...
After a whole lot of testing, the problem seemed to be an errant DIV tag. Worked fine in IE on windows but was broken on the Mac. I guess I'll need to have the iBook on the desk as I work!
Later...
On the home page, now I'm stuck on the style sheet. The eventual goal is XHTML strict and CSS 2.
2005.11.10
Welcome to a project that may take all my time for the next few years.
I had an idea and it took literally no time to set this up with iPowerWeb. After looking at suggestions and checking Netcraft this is where I ended up.